THE Parish of Braddan(or Brandon-St. Brandon was an abbot who died m the Isle of Arran in 1066)-includes the southern
part of Douglas, and stretches from the centre of the Bay to Port Soderic, and from
the Crogga river to Pen-y-Phot and Colden. It contains about 18 square miles. It consists of two nearly detached portions;
the northern one of which lies among the highest mountains of the central ridge, and includes the peaks of Pen-y-Phot, 1,772
feet; Carraghan,1,520 feet, and Colden, 1,599 feet. The southern portion is a hilly district, and consists of the lower
slopes of the hilly ridges which branch out from the southern mountains. Its chief depressions are the Baldwin valleys in
the north, the eastern portion of the central valley in the middle, and the Middle and the Crogga glens in the south. The
chief streams are-the Glas, the main branch of the Douglas, rising on Injebreck Hill, and flowing down the West Baldwin
Valley-with its tributary, the Awin-ny-Darragh (the river of oaks), and the lower course of the Dhoo; and, in the south,
the Middle river, which falls into the Crogga river. The uplands are barren, and in great part unenclosed mountain land,
but there is a good deal of fertile and well cultivated land in the sheltered lowlands. It is an agricultural district,
and is chiefly engaged in supplying the Douglas Markets. The parts adjacent to the town of Douglas are thickly inhabited,
and ornamented with numerous elegant villa residences; but the remoter parts of the parish are very sparsely inhabited,
and in the highlands the inhabitants are a very primitive race. The Crogga Glen and Port Soderic are a favourite resort
for summer tourists. Baldwin, in the West Baldwin Valley, is a small agricultural village, beautifully situated, Union
Mills is a small village, prettily situated on the Dhoo. Tromode, on the Glas,
is a manufacturing village, the inhabitants of which, to the number of about 200., are employed in the sail-cloth works
of Messrs. W. F. Moore & Son, of Cronkbourne.